From the BCD, Brand, Weber, and Montagu Collections

Sale: Triton X, Lot: 209. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $18000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BOEOTIA, Thebes. Circa 450-440 BC. AR Stater (12.04 g). Boeotian shield / Nude Herakles kneeling right, stringing bow held in his right hand; club to right, QEBA-ION (N retrograde) clockwise around from above; all within incuse square. BCD Boiotia 416 var. (club to left); CNG 72 (BCD Boeotia II) 615 (same dies); Head, Boeotia -; SNG Copenhagen -; Myron pl. A, 27 (same dies); Traité III 224, pl. CXCIX, 20-22 (same dies); BMC 32 (same dies). VF, toned, struck with worn obverse die. Very rare.

From the BCD Collection. Ex Virgil Brand Collection (Part III, Sotheby's Zurich, 9 June 1987), lot 73; Sir Hermann Weber Collection, 3250; H. Montagu Collection (Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge, 23 March 1896), lot 366.